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From the Department of Occupational Health (K.W.) and the Department of Occupational Mental Health (Y.S., K.T.), Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health (M.T., Y.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Kitasato University, and the Health Promotion Centre, Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (R.N.), Sagamihara, and the Institute for Science of Labour, Kasawaki (T.Y), Kanagawa, Japan; and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (K.W.). Address reprint requests to Koji Wada, MD, MSc, 1-15-1 Kitasato Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 228-8555, Japan, Department of Occupational Health, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan ([email protected]). Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2007; 28:507-509 © 2007 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 0899-823X/2007/2804-0026$15.00.DOI: 10.1086/518096